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MATHURA: A Dalit girl was thrown into fire allegedly by an 18-year-old youth who objected to her passing through a road next to his house in a hamlet, about 40 km from temple town Mathura.
The six-year-old girl was pushed into the fire on Tuesday by accused Sunny following an altercation as she passed through the road along with her mother in Tarauli Janubi area, police sources said.
The girl, who sustained 50 per cent burns, is reportedly in a critical condition.
Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Mathura, R K Chaturvedi said the accused was arrested on Tuesday night on charges of attempt to murder and under sections 3 and 4 of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Protection of Civil Rights) Act.
"We are thinking of taking more serious action against the accused under the Gangsters' Act. We want to send across a message that nobody should do such a thing in future," he said, but denied that the road was meant for only upper caste people.
"It is wrong...It is a general road and everybody was moving on it...There were so many women and children going through that road. The road was never obstructed by people," he said.
The six-year-old girl was pushed into the fire on Tuesday by accused Sunny following an altercation as she passed through the road along with her mother in Tarauli Janubi area, police sources said.
The girl, who sustained 50 per cent burns, is reportedly in a critical condition.
Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Mathura, R K Chaturvedi said the accused was arrested on Tuesday night on charges of attempt to murder and under sections 3 and 4 of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Protection of Civil Rights) Act.
"We are thinking of taking more serious action against the accused under the Gangsters' Act. We want to send across a message that nobody should do such a thing in future," he said, but denied that the road was meant for only upper caste people.
"It is wrong...It is a general road and everybody was moving on it...There were so many women and children going through that road. The road was never obstructed by people," he said.